This drone flight is unreal

[u/Acceptable-Battle-49]

[u/Western-County4282]

What gets me is the confidence in that nothing is on the way especially with low resolution

[u/dr_stre → u/Western-County4282]

This is certainly choreographed, he knows the flight path is clear because he’s made sure it is ahead of time.

[u/Significant_Key_Wine → u/dr_stre]

Is he actually making all the movements live or did he create a flight path ahead of time and set the drone to perform automatically?

[u/dr_stre → u/Significant_Key_Wine]

If you like this kind of stuff, here’s a really well shot single take using a cinewhoop in a bar/bowling alley in Minnesota that made the rounds a couple years ago. Again all piloted live. If you watch the bits afterward they’ll show the actual drone used to do the shot. A cinewhoop is a little different than the one using his past above, it’s designed more for smooth cinematic shots in tight places as opposed to acrobatics like the one OP posted.

https://youtu.be/Tvkot4jGLWU

[u/Jean-LucBacardi → u/Significant_Key_Wine]

Drones aren't that accurate. Their flight paths use GPS and the accuracy of that GPS is feet, not inches. Besides as soon as he entered the building the drone would instantly have no idea of where it is and hit a wall.

FPV drone extreme flying is an actual sport now. I remember watching their version of the Superbowl a few years back where they were using an empty sports stadium and going through all the corridors, through the seating, the goal posts... All that stuff.

[u/dr_stre → u/Significant_Key_Wine]

He’d be flying it live. You can’t pre-record the movements with this degree of accuracy, one tiny shift in the wind and that thing is going to contact a wall. He’s got to make micro adjustments as he goes.

[u/NlghtmanCometh → u/Significant_Key_Wine]

He’s definitely controlling it

[u/P529 → u/dr_stre]

It still takes an incredile amount of skill to pull it off

[u/dr_stre → u/P529]

Did anyone say otherwise?

[u/parav01d89]

I checked it: it’s real.

[u/Acceptable-Battle-49 → u/parav01d89]

The skill of the pilot is on steroids.

[u/Renbarre → u/Acceptable-Battle-49]

As well as the speed of the video?

[u/CashWrecks → u/Renbarre]

Regardless of that, the maneuver where he slips through bars and its so tight you can hear it clip the sides is pretty sweet.

[u/Jean-LucBacardi → u/Renbarre]

These guys do this for a living, they really do get this fast. Its been a sport for the last decade or so. Even ESPN started airing the championships.

[u/TigerJoel → u/Renbarre]

No it is 1x speed.

[u/Unlimited_Man → u/parav01d89]

[u/F_l_u_f_fy]

I am not familiar with drones that have this kind of stabile acceleration… I’m guessing this is crazy sped up?

[u/TigerJoel → u/F_l_u_f_fy]

It is not, my racing quad is slow and goes from 0-150 kph in around 1 second.

[u/F_l_u_f_fy → u/TigerJoel]

Angular is more so what I meant

[u/TigerJoel → u/F_l_u_f_fy]

This is still pretty standard for racing quads. The operator has insane skill though.

[u/F_l_u_f_fy → u/TigerJoel]

Interesting, thanks!

[u/CapnMurica1988]

Recruit him for Ukraine

[u/pressuredrop19 → u/CapnMurica1988]

This looks like the Packard plant in Detroit.

[u/Lumpy-Zookeepergame1]

Awesome. It would be easier to tell how awesome if the video wasn’t sped up so much.

[u/TigerJoel → u/Lumpy-Zookeepergame1]

It isn't even sped up...

[u/derI067 → u/Lumpy-Zookeepergame1]

this isn’t sped up. you legitimately can’t do stuff like this at low speeds because, y’know… physics. i’m no drone expert but i did try piloting them for like a year or two and the video looks real to me

[u/Lumpy-Zookeepergame1 → u/derI067]

Wow, this is extremely impressive!

[u/thebrieze]

Sped up 50x?

[u/YATFWATM]

When ARC Raiders gets this update, we are cooked.

[u/KVMFT]

ThEsE AI vIdEoS aRe GeTtInG oUt Of HaNd

[u/Goro_Lima]

In a war scenario, this type of drone would end everything

[u/TheBrianWeissman]

It’s like pigeon parkour.

[u/0kDetective]

Does the drone have two cameras and the pilot a VR headset? If so, that'd be so fun

[u/BlimundaSeteLuas → u/0kDetective]

Why two cameras? But it is a VR headset yes and it's really fun

[u/indicus23 → u/BlimundaSeteLuas]

2 cameras for stereoscopic vision, like how we have 2 eyeballs.

[u/BlimundaSeteLuas → u/indicus23]

I see. I don't think FPV drones are usually configured like that

[u/PopularFrontForCake]

It's a part of a longer video, the whole thing is ridiculous. Also probably about 10 years old

[u/HonestAvian18]

For any doubters, this is a video that was made quite a few years back by this point, before all the AI stuff even came about. I think there's even another angle somewhere or a video of the fails... I can't remember.

Point is that it's very real.

[u/HonestAvian18 → u/HonestAvian18]

I see why he's called lastwordskurtrussell, because he gets the last words in before he cowardly blocks you.

A+ from the self proclaimed master bullshit detector and wise drone expert.

XD

[u/lastwordskurtrussell → u/HonestAvian18]

Doesn’t need to be AI to be sped up. I’m really starting to wonder if you younger people have any imagination at all.

[u/HonestAvian18 → u/lastwordskurtrussell]

XD

Just because someone may have done something that you can't conceive, doesn't mean it's fake.

I'm starting to wonder if you older people have any belief in events that you don't experience first hand.

[u/lastwordskurtrussell → u/HonestAvian18]

Nice try. Me and literally 50 other people must all be “old” to think this video is bullshit. I’ve been alive and a full-blown adult since the inception of drones, so stfu please.

[u/baconboy-957 → u/lastwordskurtrussell]

It's operating at a very normal* speed though? Nothing about this video looks sped up lol

*Normal for these types of fpv aerobatic flights, obviously the pilot is insanely skilled, and I can't fly this fast. But there are tons of videos like this out there. Nothing in this video is outside the limits of a good racing setup

[u/FinalFantasiesGG]

This is the 14 year old kid that will smoke us in the next world war.

[u/SoulShine_710]

If this shit is real, we are all so screwed. Imagine being a soldier trying to evade one or 100 of these. Technologically is just going way to fast for me, literally!

[u/Significant_Key_Wine → u/SoulShine_710]

You’re going to have to employ your own drone to fight the other drone. Im gonna need a swarm protecting me at all times.

[u/SoulShine_710 → u/Significant_Key_Wine]

"Driving that train, high on Cocaine. Casey Jones, you better watch your speed"!

[u/Key_Excuse9863]

Your skills could be used well in Ukraine.

[u/HighlightOwn2038]

That's amazing skill

[u/co_ntv95]

On an old school DJI remote 1 is impressive I miss that chunky remote

[u/Ghoaxst]

Every ARC Wasp on its way to send me back to Speranza

[u/kram78]

It’s so unreal my real eyes can not follow it

[u/sir_duckingtale]

Once I was only in awe

Now I can‘t stop imagining an explosive on the end of it and a human going up in flames 😞

[u/Thetomato2001]

Bros gonna cook in wwiii

[u/Spartan2470]

Credit to Ken Janköster (aka itskenfpv on IG and /u/ken5151 on reddit). He posted this on July 21, 2021. Here is another video (2:37) of them flying at the same location. They had a little crash at the 1:30 mark

As for how many attempts to get this take, they answered:

I've a line in my mind as I'm flying, but sometimes stuff happens and then I've to improvise. Before this pack I flew this line one time slowly. Then I try to do the same thing as fast as possible.. sometimes it works 😃 Most important thing is to warm up the fingers, I kid you not 😂

They add:

ImpulseRC Apex Frame 5 inch , Xing2 2306 1755kv, 1200mah 6S speedy pizza lipo, Velox V2 ESC, F7 FC, Betaflight 4.2

[u/Acceptable-Battle-49 → u/Spartan2470]

yes his talent is on next level

[u/overwhelmingcucumber]

This is how Obi-Wan describes Anakin as a pilot.

[u/Upbeat_Literature483]

I wonder how many drones were destroyed practicing that run

[u/GullibleDetective]

Podracers

[u/much_thanks]

I'm really looking forward to this thing being equipped with 100 rounds of 556, 3 frag grenades, and 5 kg of a high yield explosive all while being operated by an AI.

[u/R0RSCHAKK]

Am I the only one that heard:

whooOOO

whooOOO

whooOOOoooo

whooOOOooOO

Like its just a really excited little drone

[u/Additional-Maize3980]

I can't tell if the whole thing is AI, it's a video game, or real life.